The hospital orderly pushing the trolley down the halls of the hospital at 2 in the morning is paying a higher tax rate right now in this country than the 400 top income earners who are bringing home a third of a billion dollars a year.
Whitehouse highlights the disparity in tax rates between average earners and the wealthiest Americans.
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The fossil fuel-captured EPA’s decision to end its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is a tragic and expensive mistake.
We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.
The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
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